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CJUo Indianapolis "Where the gpirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty" II Cor. 3-7 WEATHER TODAY Clearing, Colder High, 42; Low, 28 Yesterday High, 65; Low, 40 TH TODAY'S CHUCKLE i One wife to another: "DH you ever get the uncomfort-able feeling that perhaps your gray hair isn't pre-mature? TAR VOL. 59, NO. 165 is is is FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1961 ME 8-2411 dllytr by carrim umui AO 4oc nr mt M-rftvi "rw UVI Is UVI fnnf Is Girl Drifting In Atlantic Rescued Teacher's Hopes Rise D. C.

Stephenson Guilty Of Assault On Missouri Girl House Speaker Sam Rayburn Dies Of Cancer D. C. (David Curtis) Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan who was released in 1956 from a life sentence for the murder of an Indianapolis girl, was paroled yesterday in Missouri after hM. 'J) conviction for common assault on a 16-year-old girl. 7 hi (AP Wlrephoto) TERRY JO DUPERRAULT EXAMINED IN HOSPITAL Dr.

Franklin Vernon, Unidentified Nurse Check Victim's Condition Terre Haute Gamblers Firing Is Upheld By LESTER M. HUNT Dismissal of Merle N. Jack son, principal at the Muscata tuck State School, was upheld yesterday in a unanimous de cision by three members of the State Personnel Board who heard the hotly contested case. Jackson was found guilty by the board of two counts al leged in his Sept. 18 discharge ordered by State Mental Health Commissioner Dr.

Stewart T. Ginsberg in subordination and striking an inmate. John C. Carvey, attorney for the ousted principal, immediately announced that the case will be appealed to Jennings Circuit Court, which has jurisdiction in the area where the school is located. The insubordination charge was Dased on Jackson fail ure to file a written report of a previous incident as or dered by Dr.

Donald H. Jolly, superintendent of Muscata tuck. The striking charge was the result of Jackson's punishing of a fractious pupil on Sept 13 by striking her twice across the buttocks with his belt when she disrupted a class. and three times immediately afterward in his office, both times in the presence of wit nesses. Carvey said he was unable to understand why a principal should be dismissed for dis ciplinine an inmate in the Turn to Page 6, Column 2 The Weather Joe Crow Says: It isn't often that a representative of Uncle Sam Is as respected by both political parties as was Mr.

Sam. Indianapolis and Indiana-Cloudy, windy and colder this morning with partial clearing by this afternoon; clearing and colder tonight Partly cloudy and a little warmer tomorrow. A chance of light snow flurries this morning. ECHO I Today 5:15 p.m. High in the north, moving northeast 7:18 p.m.

High In the north, moving southeast Tomorrow 6:32 p.m. High in the north, moving southeast Face Prison By Yule (AP Wlrephoto) SAM RAYBURN Death Ends Service To U.S. Rayburn's body will lie in state from 9 a.m. today until 9 a.m. Saturday in the foyer of the Sam Rayburn Library.

The funeral services will be held in the First Baptist Church. Christmas Parade Due Tomorrow More than 300,000 children and adults are expected to watch the start of the third annual Christmas Parade at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Marking the beginning of the Christmas season for the city, the hour long parade will offer everything from a beau tiful "Queen of Light" Miss Jean Elaine Singery of Speed way High School to the most famous of all Christmas char acters, Santa Claus. Giant balloons, ranging in size from an 80-foot long dragon to a 14-foot tall cowboy, will parade through the streets in a pageant of the "South, East, North and West." The theme of the parade is derived from the sections of the world represented by the giant balloons.

There will be cowboys and Indians for the West, Oriental characters for the East, ships and whales for the North and Southern story book figures such as Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit THE SMALL fry will get Turn to Page 6, Column 2 For 4 More uii lacnt A little blond girl who survived the sinking of a uxury yacht in a Baha mian squaa aunaay was plucked from a life raft on the Atlantic Ocean yester day and rushed to a Miami hospital in a United Mates Coast Guard helicopter. The child, 11-year-old Terry Jo" Duperrault of Green Bay, wag a deep sleep and was reported in serious condition. But Dr. Franklin Verdon. flKlin veruon.

ie girl, added: ill make it. I who attended the "I think she will think she will live. Terry Jo was picked up by a passing merchant vessel, the Captain Theo, which chanced upon the small white raft in choppy waters. Discovery of the 1 1 boosted hopes for four persons still missing after the sinking of the 60-foot ketch "Blue Bell." One of the missing persons is Mrs. Mary Dene Harvey, 32, a former reporter for The Indianapolis Star.

Mrs. Harvey's husband, 45- year-old Capt Julian Harvey, was skipper of the "Blue Bell." He was discovered in a life boat Monday by a pass ing tanker. With him was the body of a girl he had pulled aboard in a rescue attempt The girl first was identified as Terry Jo, but now is believed to be her 7-year-old 6ister, Rene. Still missing are Mrs. Harvey, Dr.

and Mrs. Arthur Duperrault parents of the girls, and their son, Brian, 14. The "Blue Bell" sank in less than 15 minutes after running into a sudden squall near Stirrup Key. The mainmast crashed through the hull and the vessel caught fire. AUTHORITIES had all but given up an extensive search started four days ago for the survivors when the Captain Theo radioed it had found the girl about 120 miles northeast of Miami.

She had drifted 14 or 15 miles since the Blue Bell sank. When the child was found, the Coast Guard rushed the cutter Travis, an 82-foot patrol boat and a second search plane into the area, The Coast Guard helicopter, piloted by Lt Cmdr. Robert Pope of Miami, took the girl by hoist from the merchant ship. SHE AWAKENED briefly several times during the trip, but it wasn't until she reached Turn to Page 6, Column 4 a Senior political officer in the United Nations, was dismissed for "insubordination." He had refused to submit to the U.N. secretariat a secret list of Hungarian refugees and freedom fighters, who had given evidence to the U.N.

committee investigating the brutal Soviet suppression of the Hungarian 1956 national revolt. Bang Jensen maintained that as Communists had full access to all files in the U.N. secretariat they could easily obtain the names of the freedom fighters. The U.N. Secretariat including its two senior American officers, Andrew Cordier and Ralph Bunche, sided against Bang-Jensen and initiated an intense and vicious press and propaganda campaign against Turn to Page 6, Column 1 By DOUGLAS B.

CORNELL Bon ham, Tex. (AP) Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, a man of small height but great national stature, died yesterday in this little Texas town he loved. Rayburn held one of the most powerful offices in gov- Governor Welsh Orders Flags Flown At Half Staff Page 6. Bob Collins Column Page 11. Biography Page 12.

Editorial, "Mr. Sam Rayburn" Page 14. Other Page 40 ernment and was second in succession to the presidency. IN BONHAM, every flying flag was lowered to half staff. The townspeople grieved for their most distinguished citizen.

In Washington, the chair on the rostrum of the House of Representatives where Rayburn held gavel in hand more than twice as long as any speaker in history, was draped in black. Funeral services will be held here at 1:30 p.m.(CST) Saturday. Tributes poured out from the noted. They came from President Kennedy. THEY CAME from Former President Dwight D.

Eisenhower, who was born in the Texas district which Rayburn represented in Congress for nearly half a century. Former President Harry S. Truman, who got the word that he was chief executive at Franklin D. Roosevelt's death while chatting with Rayburn in the latter's hidea way Capitol Hill office, called him "one of the great men in our time." Former President Herbert Hoover called him a great leader. It was cancer that struck down the 79-year-old Democratic leader.

He died in the dull dawn on a chilly, windy morning in the unpretentious little yellow brick hospital of his personal physician, Dr. Joe A. Risser. He had wasted away from 176 to 120 pounds from the illness which was diagnosed as cancer only six weeks ago1. His breathing stopped at 6:16 a.m.

(CST). His heart stopped four minutes later. "It was a very easy death for a very great man," Dr, Risser told reporters. Paul Bang Started To By MICHAEL PADEV Star Foreign Editor Washington A "Paul Bang-Jensen Memorial Fund" has been organized with the object of collecting funds to guarantee the education of the five American-born children of the former United Nations official, who was found shot to death near New York almost exactly two years ago. Although at the time the Bang-Jensen death was listed as a "suicide," the case has never been marked closed by the New York Police Department Most experts on affairs believe that Bang-Jensen was murdered by the Communists.

THE HONORARY chairman of the Bang-Jensen fund is Senator Thomas J. Dodd Its national committee contains the names of prominent Americans from all walks Independence (Mo.) Magis trate J. J. Brady sentenced the 70-year-old Stephenson to four months in jail and fined him $300, then paroled him on the condition that he leaver' Missouri immediately. A similar stipulation was made by Governor George N.

Craig on Dec 23, 1956, when he gave Stephenson an outright discharge from the life sentence In Indiana State Prison providing that he get out of Indiana and stay out. However, the former Klan dictator brazenly returned to Seymour, where he took a third wife and has lived since. Missouri police said Stephenson was identified by, Miss Ruby E. Wells, 16, as the motorist who tried to force her into his car. The girl said she broke free and notified police, who arrested the suspect later.

STEPHENSON denied the charge, saying he was in the area looking for a carpenter and asked the girl for directions. He said she apparently became frightened and ran. "My goodness," said Mrs. Stephenson when informed at Seymour last night of her husband's arrest. "It's simply amazing," she said.

"Everybody has their faults, but I can hardly grasp that" Mrs. Stephenson said her husband had been traveling in the printing business and the last word she had from him was several days ago from Texas. While In the Indiana prison, Stephenson Invented a machine to repair linotype parts and he had been traveling trying to set up distributorships. Stephenson, who once boasted "I am the law" in In-diana and backed it up with political power, was convicted of second-degree murder in the 1925 death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28-year-old Statehouse secretary. With two of his body guards, the Klan boss forced Miss Oberholtzer to accompany him at gun point to a Hammond hotel where he abused her so viciously that she swallowed bichloride of mercury in a fit of pain and horror.

Stephenson was convicted for failing to provide any until the crisis is over," the mayor said, adding: "Capehart warned the United States that Fidel Castro is a Communist and shouldn't be in power but he gave this warning some months after Castro took over. 'The senator says this country's foreign policy is in a critical situation and it's the government's fault. "BUT HE NEGLECTS to mention that he is part of the government. What has Capehart done to improve our foreign policy? "I'll tell you what he is doing absolutely nothing except second guessing. "Capehart waits until our national leaders take some ac tion, finds what he thinks is weak in the action and then criticizes.

By CAROLYN PICKERING The United States Supreme Court has denied Terre Haute's convicted syndicate gamblers a motion for a re hearing. As a result the six men face the prospect of going to prison by Christmas. The denial came four years after Treasury agents raided their offices in Terre Haute which revealed a $3,000,000 gambling enterprise. THE SDC ARE Leo Shaffer and Jules Horwick of Chicago; Philip Share and Irwin Gordon of Las Vegas; James Willkie Files Suit For $1,000,000 Minneapolis (AP) Philip H. Willkie, son of the 1940 Republican Presidential nomi nee, yesterday filed a $1,000, 000 alienation of affections suit against Mr.

and Mrs. F. Peavey Heffelfinger, Wayzata, Minn. Willkie charged in his com plaint that the Heffelfingers, by various efforts, prevailed upon their daughter, Mrs. Rosalie Willkie, to leave him SHE HAD FILED a divorce action last May when the couple lived at Rushville, where Willkie was' president of the National Bank.

In her complaint, Mrs Willkie alleged her husband had been guilty of misconduct with his secretary, named as Mrs. Lea Sterrett That action still is pending. D. STEPHENSON Evicted From Missouri medical attention for the dying woman. YESTERDAY'S edict in Missouri was.

actually the third ultimatum Stephenson has received to leave a state as a basis for parole. He first was paroled from his Indiana life sentence in 1950 by Governor Henry F. Schricker on the promise he would take a job at Carbon-dale, 111., and stay there. Stephenson doublecrossed Schricker, skipped and was finally located working as a printer in Minneapolis under an alias. He was taken back to the prison for violation of parole.

Crossing Crash Hurls Train Off Tracks; 62 Hurt Beech, la. (UPIV-The Rock Island Line's "Twin Star Rocket," hurtling at 60 miles? an hour, slammed against a road grader at a "blind" rural crossing yesterday and ca reened off the tracks. At least 62 persons were injured seriously enough to ba taken to hospitals and dozens of others were shaken up and bruised. Lyle Wellens, driver of the) road grader, lost the lower part of his right leg in a simi lar crash involving a Rock Island freight train about eight years ago. Wellens, 58 years old, who wore an artificial leg after the first mishap, was one of the injured listed in serious condition last night "HE'S NOT HELPING tho United States and he certainly is noi neiping jnaiana.

"He's helping one person Homer E. Capehart. "Every six years he comes back to Indiana, holds a corn field conference at his Daviess County home and asks 'Send me back to Washinotnn "I now believe the people of Indiana realize the senior senator from Indiana is not a man of action but a man of words and the words come too late to help. "The world is in critical condition. One diplomatic blunder could cause a war that would end mankind.

"This isn't the time' for second guessing. This isn't the time for undue criticism, and this isn't the time for Senator Homer Capehart," Boswell said. E. Tamer of Miami, and E. (Eddie) Wyatt of Terre Haute The only remaining legal remedy now, according to United States Attorney Rich ard P.

Stein, is for the defend ants to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision. One of the defense attorneys, Meyer Gladstone of Chicago, said yesterday he would file with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago a motion asking that its mandate (a legal paper ordering the defendants to report to the U.S. marshal for transportation to prison) be stayed for 25 days until the additional plea to the Supreme Court can be filed. Word of the Supreme Court ruling was said to be "wonderful news" by former U.S. Attorney Don A.

Tab-bert, who conducted the six-week trial in Federal Court in the summer of 1959. Chances of the Supreme Court reversing itself on the motion to reconsider appeared slim, court attaches said, in view of the panel's lauding of the government's presen tation of evidence and the meticulous instructing of trial Judge Cale J. Holder. THE SIX MEN, together with former Marion County Sheriff Charles L. (Buck) Sumner and Indianapolis gambler Joey Jacobs, were convicted of conspiracy to evade $326,000 in Federal excise taxes, growing out of a 10-week football betting operation international in scope.

AH eight men also were fined $25,000 each, but Sumner and Jacobs drew suspended prison terms because of their ages and the comparatively minor roles they played in the operation. TV-Radio ...15 Want Ads 29-39 Weather ....29 Werner ....14 Women's Pages .8, 9 Jensen Memorial Fund Educate His Children Capehart Dodging Issues, Giving Indiana IVo Help, Boswell Says INSIDE TODAY'S STAR CONGOLESE SLAY 13 ITALIAN FLIERS-Central govern-ment promises to avenge massacre of U.N. aviators who flew mercy, mlsiion Page 2 U.S. TAKES STAND ON NEUTRALITY-President Kennedy warns of America's determination to act against 'hostile' neutrals Page 3 MISSILE KILLER ROCKET MEETS TEST-Army reports all goals were met yesterday in the first successful test of a system designed to defend against nuclear attack Page 3 of life and all shades of political opinion. Among them are Conservative William Buckley, editor of the National Review, as well as Socialist Norman Thomas.

Other national com-m 1 1 1 members include: Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News; Jame-G. Campaigne, editor of The Indianapolis Star, Columnist George Sokolsky, Labor Union Leader Lew Johnson of the New York AFL-CIO Executive Committee, John Wayne, Adolphe Menjou and Ronald Reagan, Hollywood actors Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Joseph A. Beirne, president of the Communications Workers and Vice-president of the AFL-CIO Representative Walter Judd (R-Minn.) and DeWitt 'Wallace, editor of the Readers Digest Paul Bang-Jensen, who was Jasper, Ind. (Spl.) Republican Senator Homer E.

Cape-hart has evaded the important issues for the last 17 years and has done nothing to help Indiana residents, Indianapolis Mayor Charles H. Boswell said last night Boswell spoke at a meeting of Eighth District Democratic leaders here. HE IS ATTEMPTING to gain grass-root support for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Capehart The mayor has Indicated his interest in running for the post. However, he wants to check his state-wide support before officially announcing. He Is expected to announce shortly after Jan.

1, 1962. "The senator doesn't give an opinion on a crisis Bridge 7 Campbell .27 Comics 20 Crossword ..28 Deaths .28, 29 Editorials ...14 Food 9 Home Area News .4, 5 Sports Pages 22-26 Theaters ..18 A.